Dear Parents and Carers, Just over 3 weeks to go until the Bazaar! The Spinning Wheel hampers for the Bazaar are now in your child’s neighbourhood. Please donate according to the hamper theme for your child’s home group (see below). We look forward to another year of generous, good quality, non-perishable donations! ALSO, beginning this […]
Grade 5 Buddy Program Assembly Presentation This week’s assembly showcased the wonderful and collaborative work of the Year 5 and Prep Buddy Program. In response to the 2016 Science Week theme, ‘Drones, Droids and Robots,’ the Year 5 students planned a series of workshops to explore robots.Working in collaboration with their teachers, the year five
Literacy This week in literacy there was a spelling focus which involved the students investigating silent letters. This is in addition to the individual spelling focus each student has each week. The students have been asked to identify the strategies that will help them improve their spelling. In reading this week the students have been investigating
Numeracy In the final week of term 3, we explored prime and composite numbers. We began term 4 last week by looking at triangular and square numbers. Can you see why Kit called his work below a “Face of Squares”? This week we launched into BIDMAS, which is the way we remember our order of
A Day in Ancient Rome: Thursday 13th October Students will take part in a Roman style banquet from 10.45-11.15. Suggestions for the banquet include: antipasto (meats- salami, mortadella, cheeses, olives etc), grissini, fruit, prosciutto and melon, Italian biscuits, frittata or pizza. The idea is to bring a plate of food to be shared by the neighbourhood. If
Literacy This week in literacy the focus has been letter writing. The students discussed the purpose of letters and explored the features. They then considered how voice can be included to make a letter more effective. This will support the taking action stage of the inquiry process. The 5/6 Team
District Athletics A reminder that the District Athletics competition is being held tomorrow. The bus will be leaving school at 9:15. Students attending are reminded to bring warm clothing, water and some food. Students will return to school at around 15:30. Good luck to everyone competing! The 5/6 Team
Dear Parents, We are requesting large ice-cream tubs to use for collecting water. If you can help by sending them to school it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, The 5/6 Team
BOOK SWAP – WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24 To raise money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, we’re holding a HUGE BOOK SWAP on Wednesday August 24. Bring a book you don’t want anymore (or lots of books) and swap it for another one (or lots of new ones). You need a gold coin per book
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Numeracy A couple of weeks ago we told you about “Cat and Mouse”, a fantastic Maths 300 mini-inquiry we worked on. Here are some of the amazing Cat and Mouse boards our students designed: